Press release

The Parole Board faces up to new challenges

Parole Board CEO Martin Jones blogs about the challenges the Parole Board face going forward

Martin Jones

Martin Jones, Parole Board CEO, has written a blog on the challenges the organisation will face to meet their objectives in 2017/18 and beyond .

He said: 鈥2017-18 represents the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the Parole Board. Those fifty years has seen fundamental changes and many improvements in the way our system works, it has also brought enormous new challenges.鈥

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The blog discusses issues linked to the objectives set out in the Parole Board Strategy 2016-2020 and how they can be managed, including:

  • the rise in the number of oral hearings
  • the Board鈥檚 strategy on IPP sentenced prisoners
  • the increase of people recalled to prison
  • the balance between fairness to victims and prisoners

Martin鈥檚 blog is a guest contribution for Russell Webster鈥檚 blogging site that Russell started in 2011 to 鈥渟timulate debate around the rapid changes in the way we deliver public services.鈥

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Published 12 July 2017